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by mierz00 11mo ago
It’s a stylistic choice, it doesn’t have to cater to peoples expectations.
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by mierz00 11mo ago
I’ve come to love this style of writing. While not quite the same, Tim Winton’s Cloud Street felt similar. Just raw thoughts, no rules.
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by mierz00 11mo ago
That was a delightful read. The last part resonates with me, early on I realised that listening to people was the easy ticket to connection. But like the author, a lot of the time I was not emotionally available for that connection and I ha
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by mierz00 1y ago
I’m not sure what argument you’re trying to make. Of course they can, just like an OSS maintainer can go be a waiter.
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by mierz00 1y ago
I always find it interesting to see something announced and the reactions are “what about me?” I imagine you would have no trouble finding a well paying job to write software which is not the same situation for artists.
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by mierz00 1y ago
Could you explain why this is?
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by mierz00 1y ago
The first time I ever saw a psychologist this was one of the things they told me. Specifically, that athletes tend to do better when anxious. I think about this very often when I find myself very comfortable and under no stress, I can feel
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by mierz00 1y ago
Whenever people ask me about my job, I always say it’s about 20% programming, 80% dealing with people and I’m not even in a leadership position. AI has not helped me at all in my corporate job, however on my start up it has been a game chan
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by mierz00 1y ago
In 2016 I was travelling on 1000 AUD a month in Asia. Granted this was no life of luxury, but I wasn’t exactly holding back on much either.
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by mierz00 1y ago
I do this to code I have personally written as well. Taking a step back and reviewing all my changes gives a different perspective and often find things I didn’t see when in the weeds.
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by mierz00 1y ago
Maybe I have misunderstood but this sounds like a ways of working problem as opposed to technology?
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by mierz00 1y ago
This made me laugh, I can’t wait.
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by mierz00 1y ago
One thing that has “cured” these thoughts for me is having a child. I don’t have time to ruminate like I did previously and I’ve also come to understand people better. It’s funny to see how often we all act like toddlers. It’s also made wor
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by mierz00 1y ago
Recently I’ve been taking a step back and getting ChatGPT 5 to ask me questions to create a spec. I refine that spec and then give that to planning mode and then go from there. I’ve found if I jump straight into planning mode I miss some cr
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by mierz00 1y ago
I’m curious as to why you need to use a pre-existing database? Can you run some migration scripts to port the old database content into a new CMS?
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by mierz00 1y ago
How have you been using Playwright MCP?
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by mierz00 1y ago
What kind of problems have you been throwing at it?
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by mierz00 1y ago
I wouldn’t call 2020 that long ago. But you’re right my main mistake was not going with an online bank at the time. That being said, French administration sucks overall. The amount of paperwork required is insane. Like the time my wife and
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by mierz00 1y ago
I have a similar story in France. Closing an account with Caisse d’Epargne was nothing short of pure torture. Luckily, I didn’t actually have to go in, but the process took me nearly 6 months of back and forth, multiple phone calls, multipl
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by mierz00 1y ago
This reminds me of the Louis C.K skit where he talks about people complaining on a plane, completely forgetting how incredible it is to be flying. Not so long ago, the example I gave about recipes was something you would only see in sci-fi
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by mierz00 1y ago
Edit: I see your point. That’s valid. I’m just not so sure it’s black and white. At least in my experience it hasn’t been.
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by mierz00 1y ago
This does not feel anything like crypto to me. Crypto always had hard to understand and abstract use cases. It became popular because the value was going up. LLMs are different. There are an endless amount of use cases that people can easil
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by mierz00 1y ago
It’s not that simple. I’m making a tool to analyse financial transactions for accountants and identify things like misallocated expenses. Initially I was getting an LLM to try and analyse hundreds of transactions in one go. It was correct r
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by mierz00 1y ago
I’ve had little success with batching, Eg analysing 50 transactions in one go. It made the rate of hallucinations much higher. Is there a way to batch as if you’re doing many requests?
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by mierz00 1y ago
Pornography and sex education are two different things and I’d argue that pornography hurts education.
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by mierz00 1y ago
AI has a huge branding problem on HN but I haven’t found that to be true outside of tech. Many people are very eager to see how AI can improve their lives. I’m building a product for accountants that uses AI, initially I avoided using AI as
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by mierz00 1y ago
I wasn’t hired, but years ago when I was starting my career I had one of the worst interview experiences of my life through HN. At the time I had about 1 year experience and the first interview was how to architect a banking transaction sy
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by mierz00 1y ago
One thing I found shocking in France was how many kids will stand outside of schools and smoke. It was the perfect environment to get kids to start smoking. Next step is putting limits on smoking in films. French films still portray smoking
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by mierz00 1y ago
I’m curious if anyone has witnessed this happening, and why it was DEI that was the problem?
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by mierz00 1y ago
Thank you for clarifying, with that context rereading your original comment makes a lot more sense.

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